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id: 20069
author: Caruso, Enrico
title: Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing
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words: 18712
sentence: 710
flesch: 68
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summary:
  The country is overrun with inferior teachers of singing; men and women who have failed to get before the public, turn to teaching without any practical experience, and, armed only with a few methods, teach these alike to all pupils, ruining many good voices. The ordinary registers are the low, the middle, the high voice, or head voice, and sometimes the second high voice, which has been called the flagellant voice.


id: 21400
author: Haslam, W. E.
title: Style in Singing
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words: 21707
sentence: 1108
flesch: 65
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summary:
  The slight modifications, or _pointages_, asked from Verdi, were not, I was assured by Madame Saxe, of a character to alter either the rôle or the opera, and she remarked (I quote her own words): Why should Verdi have shown himself more unreasonable or less yielding than Meyerbeer or Wagner? Its _length_ was left to the discretion of the artist, who was supposed to be familiar with the accepted style of delivery termed _recitativo parlante_.


id: 12856
author: Myer, Edmund J. (Edmund John)
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words: 25144
sentence: 1265
flesch: 69
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title:
  The Renaissance of the Vocal Art A Practical Study of Vitality, Vitalized Energy, of the Physical, Mental and Emotional Powers of the Singer, through Flexible, Elastic Bodily Movements

summary:
  Physical effort in singing develops physical tone and physical effect. Artistic tone, as we have found, is the result of certain conditions demanded by Nature.


id: 7824
author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
title: Melody : The Story of a Child
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words: 26422
sentence: 1476
flesch: 90
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summary:
  For a moment the two strong ones stood irresolute, feeling themselves like little children in the grasp of a fate too big for them to grapple. You shall hear all my stories, he said; everything you shall hear, little Melody; but here we are at the house now, and I must make my manners to the ladies.


id: 37662
author: Tubbs, Frank Herbert
title: Seed Thoughts for Singers
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words: 29321
sentence: 1899
flesch: 82
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summary:
  She supposes that that which would give her the position is good voice, good singing and a good character. The very first step toward good voice method is to bring the breathing apparatus back to working order.


id: 19493
author: Clippinger, D. A. (David Alva)
title: The Head Voice and Other Problems: Practical Talks on Singing
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words: 32123
sentence: 1789
flesch: 71
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summary:
  The unanimity of this dolorous admission would seem to be a sad commentary on the fraternity of voice teachers; but here enters the element of humor. If we accept what voice teachers think of themselves the future looks rosy.


id: 19116
author: Lehmann, Lilli
title: How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
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words: 32577
sentence: 1455
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Soft palate laid back against the wall of the throat in low tones, lowered in high tones. So to utilize the head voice (resonance of the head cavities) that every tone shall be able to carry and shall remain high enough to reach higher tones easily, is a difficult art, without which, however, the singer cannot reckon upon the durability of his voice.


id: 26477
author: Tosi, Pier Francesco
title: Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers
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words: 31526
sentence: 1661
flesch: 75
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summary:
  It was thought, not many Years since, that in an Opera, one rumbling _Air_, full of Divisions was sufficient for the most gurgling Singer to spend his Fire[68]; but the Singers of the present Time are not of that Mind, but rather, as if they were not satisfied with transforming them all with a horrible Metamorphosis into so many Divisions, they, like Racers, run full Speed, with redoubled Violence to their final Cadences, to make Reparation for the Time they think they have lost during the Course of the _Air_. I cannot positively tell, who that _Modern_ Composer, or that ungrateful Singer was, that had the Heart to banish the delightful, soothing, _Pathetick_ from _Airs_, as if no longer worthy of their Commands, after having done them so long and pleasing Service.


id: 32023
author: Curwen, J. Spencer (John Spencer)
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words: 33384
sentence: 1974
flesch: 77
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title:
  The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c.

summary:
  I am myself somewhat to blame for illustrating this book with two pictures of choir boys. A new lot of choir boys will be liable to sing flat, and to lower their pitch at any time for the first year or so; but after they have been in training for a considerable time, I never find that there is any inclination to sing flat.


id: 30889
author: Behnke, Emil
title: The Mechanism of the Human Voice
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words: 37539
sentence: 1746
flesch: 68
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summary:
  In this manner, and in this manner alone, is vocal tone produced, whether it be called chest, falsetto, head, or by any other name. The slightest alteration in the shape of these cavities affects the quality of vocal tone by altering the direction and size of the air columns.


id: 30854
author: Miller, Frank E. (Frank Ebenezer)
title: The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation
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words: 41997
sentence: 1616
flesch: 62
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summary:
  But everything that colors voice, charging it with emotion, giving it its peculiar quality and making it different from other voices, is largely, although not wholly, the result of a psychical control--a control not exercised mysteriously from without, like Svengali's over Trilby, but by the singer himself from within. Voice quality has nothing in common with pianoforte quality of tone, yet constant thumping of the pianoforte by a singing-teacher in order to give the pupil the pitch, is apt to mix pianoforte color into a pupil's voice and mar its translucent vocal quality.


id: 16658
author: Wieck, Friedrich
title: Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances
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words: 39293
sentence: 2026
flesch: 73
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summary:
  They come to a _piano_ or _pianissimo_, and, no longer content with one pedal, they take the soft pedal while the loud pedal is still resounding. Only Jenny Lind and Henrietta Sontag were allowed by the public to give out their voices naturally and lightly without straining them, and to sing _piano_ and _pianissimo_, and their celebrity is a justification of this privilege. _Answer.


id: 15446
author: Brower, Harriette
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words: 57550
sentence: 3083
flesch: 77
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title:
  Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others

summary:
  We want singing actors as well as great singers. While zealously guarding her time from interruption from the merely curious, Miss Farrar does not entrench herself behind insurmountable barriers, as many singers seem to do, so that no honest seeker for her views of study and achievement can find her.


id: 21957
author: Taylor, David C. (David Clark)
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words: 68859
sentence: 3649
flesch: 63
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title:
  The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern

summary:
  The knowledge of the voice obtained by listening to vocal tones is of equally wide extent. An insight into the singer's vocal action is imparted to the hearer through an imaginative process which always, of necessity, accompanies the attentive listening to vocal tones.


id: 19880
author: Mills, Wesley
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words: 70555
sentence: 2689
flesch: 61
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title:
  Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)

summary:
  That minute mass of jelly-like substance known as protoplasm, constituting the one-celled animal amoeba, may be described as _ingestive_, _digestive_, _secretory_, _excretory_, _assimilative_, _respiratory_, _irritable_, _contractile_, and _reproductive_: that is to say, the amoeba must take in food; must digest it, or change its form; must produce some fluid within itself which acts on food; must cast out from itself what is no longer of any use; must convert the digested material into its own substance--perhaps the most wonderful property of living things; must take up into its own substance oxygen, and expel carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide); and possess the power to respond to a stimulus, or cause of change, the property of changing form, and, finally, the ability to bring into being others like itself. The above exercises, when carried out to a perfect result, give us _bel canto_ singing, for which the old Italian school was so noted, and which is now largely a lost art, not so much because the methods are not known to teachers, as because students will not do the work necessary to attain to this _bel canto_.


id: 33358
author: Cooke, James Francis
title: Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists
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words: 71914
sentence: 3798
flesch: 71
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summary:
  A noted expert, who for many years directed the recording laboratories of a famous sound reproducing machine company, a man whose acquaintance with great singers of the time is very wide, once told the writer of a singer who made records so perfect from the standpoint of tone that no musical critic could possibly find fault with them. You may say that it is expensive to hear great singers, and that you can only attend recitals and the opera occasionally.


